(BROWNSTOWN) - A Jennings County man with prior child molesting convictions recently received a 55-year prison sentence in Jackson Circuit Court after he was convicted of three new counts of child molesting.

55-year-old William Sheridan Wilder of North Vernon received that sentence from Jackson Circuit Judge Richard W. Poynter.

Wilder had been found guilty on the three Class A felony counts of child molesting involving a child less than 14 years of age during a one-day bench trial in early September.